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MIPCOM Picks 2010: Hayley, the 96-Year-Old Schoolgirl

Hayley Okines is a young girl suffering from progeria, which causes symptoms of old age in children. Filmmaker James Routh has followed her story for close to ten years, and this latest installment of her saga finds her at 13, about to start secondary school and finding hope in a series of drug trials that are showing encouraging results.
September 29, 2010

Hayley Okines is a young girl suffering from progeria, which causes symptoms of old age in children. Filmmaker James Routh has followed her story for close to ten years, and this latest installment of her saga finds her at 13, about to start secondary school and finding hope in a series of drug trials that are showing encouraging results.

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